Word: overcrowdedness
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The refugees waved and cheered from overcrowded trucks; thousands of them stampeded joyfully down the gangways of rusty ships docked at Ghana's port of Tema. They were home after an often brutal fortnight spent in flight from Nigeria, more than 200 miles to the east. Along with workers...
But such improvement takes time, effort and of course budget, and officials note that the best results in the past have come from long-term aids like better teacher training. An ever present temptation is to get rid of the problem on the surface by "holding back" students till they...
Faculty officials said yesterday that they are concerned because the program is expensive and because every year, sections in some areas of Biology are overcrowded and others are constantly under subscribed. They propose eliminating all sections which have fewer than five students this year.
ACCORDING TO the U.S. Conference of Mayors, about two million Americans have recently lost their jobs and can't afford to keep their homes. Most of this desperate legion has gone south and west, searching for jobs in what they have been told is a booming Sunbelt. But the recession...
The blaze prompted criticism of Mississippi's Republican Congressman Trent Lott, who represents the Biloxi area. He stepped in last year to halt Justice Department inspection of the state's often overcrowded local jails because he felt it was the state's responsibility.